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One long shot

Posted by David Hardy · 22 January 2018 09:14 AM

Sniper team picks off an ISIS enemy at 3,871 yards. Tho I think the article over-simplifies Coriolis Effect.

6 Comments | Leave a comment

Flight-ER-Doc | January 22, 2018 9:43 AM | Reply

I also wonder if it was a one-shot engagement, or did they walk the rounds in.

And once is happenstance: Can they do it repeatedly?

Dan | January 22, 2018 1:43 PM | Reply

You must have extensive long-range rifle experience, Flight-ER-Doc. I only shot out to 1,000 yards, and only for 30 years, so I'll keep my opinions quiet.

Hartley | January 22, 2018 5:56 PM | Reply

A lot of the math in that article doesn't check out - for example, they call 6,705 inches of bullet drop, but that comes in somewhere closer to 5 seconds of bullet travel instead of the 7 they claim.

JHarris762 | January 22, 2018 8:37 PM | Reply

The person who wrote that article is an idiot. For example, he writes:

"A bullet begins to lose energy as soon as it leaves the muzzle of a gun, and as it loses energy it loses the ability to counteract gravity."

The ability to counteract gravity? Really? How can a bullet do this? If it can flying cars will be available in months!

And it just get worse from there.

Harry Schell | January 23, 2018 10:33 AM | Reply

Unlikely to be someone who actually shoots.

Windy Wilson | February 3, 2018 10:33 PM | Reply

Unlikely to be anyone who had even high school physics.
Probably a "Journalist" with a "Communications Major" who wasn't required to take any class with math or science in the curriculum. Nor economics, but that's been obvious for years.

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